Hugh Nichols, Broker, Re/Max North Country Realty Inc. Brokerage has sold two buildings and leased out some retail space. One was a main street building commercial with two apartments as an investment $339,000 and the other was a commercial building with nine residential units and two commercial units also in Gravenhurst. They were both placed on ICIWorld. Hugh received about four calls and two of them purchased. The leased unit 3,200 sq. ft. was for a restaurant and he received one call and they leased it for five years. Whenever Hugh receives calls they tend to be well qualified as prospects. The Muskoka area that Hugh works is a tourist and a growing senior community. Feel free to contact him anytime.

Commercial Division reports that he had resort with a golf course for sale on ICIWorld. He had it on for a month or so and had about six calls, one from a realtor in Ontario who had a buyer for a golf course. They worked a referral, and Ian sold the golf course portion and paid a referral fee to the broker on the sale of a $1,250,000 golf course. This also was great service to the public the buyer and the seller.
Ian has received many highly qualified buyers for specific types of property such as golf courses, and other recreational property, hotels, motels, and resorts.
MARKET REPORT 4/28/03: Ian reports the commercial market is very active and he has written over $5,000,000 this year already. One reason he is so active, is because Westjet is flying directly to Comox from Calgary and Edmonton, in only 1 hr. and 15 minutes. It is making a radical difference in the valley.

Tom Pileggi, MCNE, CIPS, ASA, CNE, Broker, Sutton West Realty Inc. reports that he has done several transactions on ICIWorld. He has sold land in Vaughan $2.5M to build storage units, land for residential homes in Brampton for $2.2M, 54 acres in King Township for future development for $1.9M and has others. Also businesses such as cafes. He says he highly recommends it to all his colleagues to join.

Hello Gary,Just to inform you that I have done 2 deals recently through ICI! It is, no doubt, the best online site in Canada for real estate – especially commercial. I’ve already sold:
“Bargain Shop” – in an extremely remote and small Northern Ontario area through ICI – another realtor saw my posting and come up with her client’s offer that has now been accepted.
Retirement Home in Niagara Falls – I contacted the owner who posted his ad on ICI – but was not able to sell on its own – the buyer saw it through my web-site and the deal has gone through – that was an example of using ICI and redirecting info through another marketing source.
I also got in touch with numerous investors and realtors through your website and most likely there will be more deals as a direct, or indirect, result of it.
Best Regards,
Leo Hara

Jim Straughan, Century 21 First Canadian sold a campground. He had another property advertised, received a call and the property that he called on was not suitable. He found another one that was suitable and sold it. It was around $890,000. Jim’s Haves and Wants. He says ICIWorld is great for referrals and networking.

Kuldip Bassi, Broker of Record, Tri-city Professional Realty Inc., Brokerage reports two sales. He advertised a restaurant on ICIWorld and received calls. He showed one buyer another restaurant for $350,000 and sold it. Same for a condo for sale. He received calls and he showed a buyer another condo $160,000 and sold it. More than $10,000 in commissions.

Baljinder Sra, Broker, RE/MAX Gold Realty Inc., Brokerage gill Did a deal on a small plaza, $1.9M. He placed an exclusive listing on ICIWorld for the plaza. He received about 10 calls+ He had about 3 showings and one sale. He has also done other deals and actively works the service.
He also placed a commercial land exclusive listing on ICIWorld for $3.5M and sold it as a result. This is going to become a hotel and convention centre.

A Century 21 Broker listed an office building exclusively for $1,650,000. Within 2-3 weeks of placing it on ICIWorld he received about 20 calls. He ended up selling it to a principal who had seen it on ICIWorld. Total commission was approximately $45,000. Some of these other buyers he is now working with.

He has had about six deals resulting from connections both directly and indirectly as a result of ICIWorld. He has sold a restaurant business, a triplex, he has leased half an office building over 6,500 sq. ft., for example and several more.

He says it is the easiest and most efficient method for both brokers and potential clients to find suitable investments for their clients. It certainly complements what is on his real estate board and fits together working side by side with his real estate board.

David Grossman, MBA, Mortgage Agent, Independent Mortgage Advisors Inc. reports closing a $3M loan on a gas station within one month joining ICIWorld.

Just renewed. Always learn something new with ICIWorld that benefits me and my clients. Almost all my deals are exclusive. Yes there is a lot of business here that the average real estate salesperson is simply not aware.